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'Angertainers' are dividing society: Author Ed Coper explains why we fall for 'rage bait'

Good Weekend Talks by Good Weekend

May 15, 202641:03News & Politics

Social media was once harnessed by Barack Obama to spread hope. Now "angertainers" are exploiting our human instinct to seek threat to divide society and to build their own cultural, political and social capital, often b...

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